[censorship to the absurd]

[Budweiser [FTS]]

We have had internet censorship bill passed in the senate here in Australia,
based on  little weasel independent senator (Oz readers know who I am
talking
about) that doesn't like porn (or anything for that matter, including his
wife probably).

So watch the Australian internet industry come tumbling down....we have just
taken
a *BIG* f**king step back the 1950's as far as censorship is concerned.

When will politicians let people make up there own minds? If a 13 year old
kid wants
to look at some porn, and he can't get it off the inet, he is only going to
steal it from a
god damned newsagent. In other words, banning the inet is not going to make
any
difference....

Sorry, i know this is OT, but it has made a lot of Australians very upset :(

bud


> Harry Bissell writes:
>
> Now I don't feel so bad. At least I got my messages bounced for saying
S#!T
> and FU(Ked. Lets see how good their word list is....
> I'm offended by automatic sensorship that can't decide if a context is
> offensive.  :-) Harry (do they allow smiley faces???)
>
>
> James Husted <jhusted at halcyon.com> wrote:
> Last week I posted the specs for 19" r**cks to add to a thread concerning
> custom chassis design. One of the systems it was posted to rejected it
> because "This mail message contains banned or potentially offensive text."
> I guess their filter was set to reject r*cks (as in b at ndage? so nobody
> there hears about coat-r at cks either) The requested destination was:
> 95hower at stbenets.rmplc.co.uk Somebody should let them know since this
> message probably won't get there cause it has the word 'r at cks' also. Where
> is the world going to anyway.
> -James
>
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